Re: moving from contrib to bin

Peter Eisentraut wrote:

> Here are the contrib programs:
>
> oid2name
> pg_archivecleanup
> pg_standby
> pg_test_fsync
> pg_test_timing
> pg_upgrade
> pg_xlogdump
> pgbench
> vacuumlo
>
> The proposal would basically be to mv contrib/$x src/bin/$x and also
> move the reference pages in the documentation.

Maybe it makes sense to have a distinction between client programs and
server programs. Can we have src/sbin/ and move stuff that involves the
server side in there? I think that'd be pg_xlogdump, pg_archivecleanup,
pg_upgrade, pg_test_timing, pg_test_fsync. (If we were feeling bold we
could also move pg_resetxlog, pg_controldata and initdb there.)

(For pg_upgrade you also need to do something about pg_upgrade_support,
which is good because that is one very ugly crock.)

I agree that oid2name and vacuumlo need to be in a better state to
deserve their promotion to src/bin, if we keep them at all.

In any case I support the move out of contrib of everything except
vacuumlo and oid2name, for reasons already stated by others in the
thread.

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